Former Xbox executive Peter Moore has said his team “encouraged the console wars” during his Xbox 360-era tenure – as a way to drive competition between Microsoft and Sony.
This competition has helped the industry, Moore continued, and saw Microsoft continuing to commit to video games despite the Xbox 360’s costly “Red Ring of Death” debacle.
“We encouraged the console wars, not to create division, but to challenge each other,” Moore said, speaking on the Front Office Sports podcast (thanks, IGN). “And when I say each other I mean Microsoft and Sony.
